“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”
"Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you"
"These birds and animals and fish cannot speak, but they can suffer, and our God who created them knows their sufferings, and will hold him who causes them to suffer unnecessarily to answer for it. It is a sin against their Creator."
"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sleigh through the snow."
"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That's the essence of inhumanity."
"The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor."
"Cats are like greatness: some people are born into cat-loving families, some achieve cats, and some have cats thrust upon them."
"I once decided not to date a guy because he wasn't excited to meet my dog. I mean, this was like not wanting to meet my mother."
"I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground." (Reply to friends who chided him for delaying them by stopping to return a fledgling to its nest.)
"Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight."
"It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens or puppies"
"I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.”
"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace."
"There are two means of refuge from the misery of life-music and cats"
"Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither with learning nor true civility."
"Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail"
"There has never been a cat who couldn't calm me down by walking slowly past my chair"
"Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies."
"When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman."
"When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble."
"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admiting it."
"If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them!"
"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."
"I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me."
"He cannot be a gentleman which loveth not a dog"
"To close your eyes will not ease another's pain."
"There will come a day when such men as myself will view the slaughter of innocent creatures as horrible a crime as the murder of his fellow man - Our task must to be free ourselves - by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."
"Most cats when they are out want to be in, and vice versa, and often simultaneously."
"It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures."
"A cat is there when you call her-if she doesn't have anything better to do"
-Mahatma Gandhi
-Mary Bly
-George Q. Cannon
-Jeff Valdez
-George Bernard Shaw
-Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
-Margo Kaufman
-William H. A. Carr
-Bonnie Schacter
-Abraham Lincoln
-Albert Schweitzer
-Cynthia E. Varnado
-Jean Cocteau
-Milan Kundera
-Albert Schweitzer
-William Jones
-Josh Billings
-Rod McKuen
-Gene Hill
-Joseph Wood Krutch
-The Buddha
-Doug Larsen
-Phil Pastoret
-Samuel Butler
-Mark Twain
-John Northbrooke
-Chinese Proverb
-Albert Einstein
-Dr. Louis J. Camuti
-Eleanor Roosevelt
-Bill Adler